i feel a trend is coming on with this blogging. ugh. it's yet again right before flash class and this is when i'm blogging. i think the issue is that i don't have my desktop set up at the new place and i've been really busy doing shit. social and work. i won't even get into the fact that apparently it's going to get hellishly busy this ENTIRE SUMMER at work. ugh. they decided to take on this monsterous project which if the deal goes through apparently we are all going to be working boatloads. the only saving grace is i'm hourly. but still. it's summer. i want to relax. ugh. anyway....

so this morning there was a fire up the street from my house. thankfully it was contained to itself but there were massive amounts of firefighters on the scene for like 2 hrs. oh and neil is coming to LA tonight! at least that's his plan. i'm super excited!

so to backtrack about the weekend and the end of the move...

thursday night i headed down to the edison bar for laurel's bday (even though it was on the 18th, she was celebrating on the 24th). i have been wanting to go there for months now and never found a way to get down there. part of the reason is there is always a line on the weekends because it's so popular. i never wanted to risk that. and you have to be somewhat dressy. so if we tried to round up a crew to go down and they dressed up and couldn't get in, we'd feel weird barhopping to bar107 or something. anyway, i went down with byron and there as no line! the place is fucking gorgeous. i should have taken photos of the entire interior but for some reason i didn't. i think because i was in such awe of it's beauty that i plain forgot. i told rick it reminded me of the holodeck on star trek: TNG where picard goes to the old days of sherlock holmes times. it's just so otherworldly once you step inside. you go from skeezy downtown alleyway into beautiful steel laden bar. gah it was gorgeous! laurel was appropriately trashed which was awesome and at the end of the night we ordered this carnival platter of candy and treats. expensive was totally totally tasty.

friday night i said goodbye to the house.

it was really sad to say goodbye. but all good things must come to an end. look at how empty the house looks. and look at the original orange:house sign my dad made for us some 7 years ago. sigh....i left the house and went down to the LACMA to see laurel's friends make some music. it was a good time. totally relaxing, chill time. then i headed out to home depot to get paint for my desk and ran into angelic dave from SC and his bf. had a good chat with them. then went on my way.

saturday was coachella DAY!!! alex, james, rick and i headed out at 8:30 in one car and amanda and her boy will headed out in another. we got to the hotel in palm springs around 11am and checked in and then headed out to the polo fields. i have to say that going to coachella for 1 day and not camping is really really weird. i'm so used to tons of friends around, sitting around the campgrounds shootin the shit, and just running around frying in the heat for an entire weekend. but this time it was just one day and we had a hotel. it was super super weird. i can't say that i loved or hated it. it's just different. everyone (except lawrence) says they never want to camp again. so i guess i won't camp again because i don't want to be alone really. but i definitely wouldn't mind camping. i like the primitiveness of it all. but it is nice to go to a bed and a proper shower. however, our hotel was a good 30min away from the venue and that makes it crappy when you are tired as shit driving from the venue. so next time if we do a hotel and all that, it must be closer to the polo fields. also only going one day makes it seem odd when you count up all the bands you saw and liked and it's not that many. usually it's a lot more when you go all weekend. so that was weird too. lastly the matter of the heat. i think when you camp and thusly spend every waking minute in the intense desert heat it feels much worse. but when you roll into the venue in an air-conditioned car around 1pm you have already bypassed a good 4 to 5 hrs of the heat. so it seems less overwhelming for the hours that you do feel the sun. like i think it was over 100 this year but it didn't really feel that way because i barely was in the sun for that long. i was in the tents a lot and then it got to be later evening and it cooled off a bit. so that was also weird and different.

anyway, enough about all the weird and different things. let's talk about THE MUSIC! cuz that's really the important thing.

uffie ft. dj mehdi
i hate uffie. she's annoying and her songs suck. but i love dj mehdi. i dunno. he just looks so effortless when he's up there spinning. and he always looks like he's having fun. so i kind of wished she would go away so he could just play. but the set was for her, not him. so yea. oh well.

kavinsky
blade runner type music. it's pretty good. like i wouldn't listen to an album of it (i don't even think he has one) but it's good for a coachella setting. danceable and all that. we sort of just chilled though while he was spinning. we left early as well because alex was texting me saying that man man was so insane. crazy costumes and shit. so james and i went and....well...just read below.

man man
..well...it's just not our style. haha to say the least. it's like tom waits on acid. no i dunno. tom waits with costumes? maybe that's it. totally unbearable. i think we lasted one song.

120 days
i have to check these guys out online cuz the stuff we heard sounded really good. sort of kasabian-ish meets sigur ros-ish. i dunno. it's really good. too bad they went on late or we could have seen more of their stuff.

MGMT
we were so far outside the tent because these guys are just blowing up. people are mad for them apparently. so the tent was totally crowded. but we heard a bit from the outside and they sounded very similar to when we saw them at the echoplex. ie, they are better on the album than live unfortunately. still i enjoy them but i wish their live set was really awesome. and it's not. maybe this can change. i don't know.

boys noize
quite good stuff. very pounding and heavy but not overbearingly. very danceable yet heavy beats. i can't listen to the album. it's just too much when sitting down. but at a club it'd be perfect. i'm sad we didn't get to see them at the echoplex that one time.

erol alkan
maybe he was just following the acts before him, but he was pushing it too hard. way way too hard. too pounding and overbearing. i was really excited for him and then i got that. sigh...

hot chip
oh man. it got CROWDED as fuck in the tent for these guys. but you know what, once they got going i didn't feel suffocating anymore. i think because people were moving. i don't love their albums but DAMN they are good live. soo sooo good. i really enjoyed them just as much as i did last year. very solid performance. and the crowd was really into it which also makes it fun.

mark ronson
i am in love with mark ronson. alex, if you are reading. watch out. cuz if mark comes along, i might have to leave you. haha just kidding but seriously i love this guy. he's cute, has a british accent, and most importantly makes AWESOME music!! he's so hot right now. producing and remixing the shit out of stuff. everyone's gaga for him the way everyone's gaga for MGMT. at least i think so. but the question was, what was his set going to be like? dj-ing? live band? i mean he doesn't sing. he just produces and writes. and his last album had all guest vocals. so what was it going to be? well either way we were front and center to find out. like seriously just as close as we were the first year arcade fire was on the 2nd stage. if he was going to do some awesome shit, i wanted to be right there. once we saw them setting up the stage with various instruments i was certain it would be a live band. but how would it work? well...he came out in his little suit and red tie with matching red guitar and the violin and horns started up. they played an entirely instrumental song off the album and i got a little worried. would the entire thing be instrumental? after that song he announced how he was going to make it a really special night for us and that he was going to bring out a lot of special guests. WOO!! i was really really really hoping robbie williams will come on stage since he guests on the album but he didn't. we got the likes of the lead singers from the kaiser chiefs, klaxons, and charletons uk. and then we got some people i'd never heard of including sam sparro.

sam sparro was AWESOME. his glittery pants and all. haha but his song "black & gold" which mark ronson, i believe, had nothing to do with but just really liked, was just so fucking good. gahhhhh!!! so good. i can't stop listening. anyway, all in all it was my favorite set of the night...but then there was a matter of prince....

portishead
i don't love portishead and we were super far away so i don't really have much to say other than it sounded really good for what it was, but i didn't really care. their music is eerily pretty but i can't get into it. sorry folks, i was just there to get ready for prince.

prince
ok, let this cover of "creep" play while you read my posting...


prince - "creep" (live cover @ coachella 2008)

so up until prince came on i thought mark ronson's set was by far the best. it was just so fun to see all those people up there. it was like this onslaught of fun for 45 min or whatever. but then there was prince. and i don't even really like prince's music. but no one can deny the presence of prince. no one. his set was epic. he came on around 11pm and went til 1am. he would have kept going but 1am is well past coachella's bedtime. i'm surprised they let him go that long. but after all, he is PRINCE. he played some hits and some songs i didn't know but the entire time i was just blown away. he fuckin rocks out on stage. his guitar solos are insane. he's totally diva and over the top but with a genuine smile and joy for performing the entire time. he really just wants the audience to have a good time and you can tell he is having a good time as well. it was awesome even considering the fact that i was so dead tired and my back was dying from straining to see over heads for hours. but i kept going because it was prince and he was just simply amazing. and then once you thought it couldn't get any more amazing. well....he busted out the gem that should (if you were listening to me) be playing as you are reading this. that's right he covered radiohead's "creep" and it was just mindblowingly awesome. everyone was slackjawed. gah. just thinking about it gives me chills.

so all in all this coachella was very weird and different but very awesome. alex was not with me for most of the day because he was camped out at the main stage so that he could front and center for portishead and prince. and he sure was. we saw him on the jumbotron numerous times and he was like 3 people from the barrier. crazy crazy! we got back to our hotel at like 2am or maybe it was 3am. i don't even know. i was so tired i had to switch off driving cuz i thought i was going to fall asleep. we all showered and slept and checked out the next morning. on the way back to LA we stopped for gas in ontario and who should we see. HOT CHIP! yes, the band was there getting gas and james was the one to spot them. i thought he was kidding but he wasn't. i recognized the lead singer's pink pants from the previous day and knew it was them for sure. so so random.

so that's it. last night i went to the new father's office with the girls and had the yummy burger and beer. it's just as crowded as the santa monica location and it's much larger. but the demand is greater i suppose so that's how it balances out to have the same level of crowdedness. but it was worth it.

ok flash class to tend to.

sorry for the lapse in postings. life has been HECTIC! i haven't even tended to many of my emails. this is partly due to pure exhaustion, partly due to lots of work at work, and partly due to not having my proper computer set up at the new apt. my apologies. things will resume normally soon.

so. "THE MOVE" was a success on my end. alex and i got the UHAUL on saturday at 8am. ugh we were so tired. at least i was.

we got all the stuff from my house which took about 30 min. then over to alex's to get all the non big heavy things. then we called brian and had him come over to help with the big items. then we went to the new apt. we got there around noon. we unloaded the big stuff. got some lunch. unloaded the smaller stuff. and then alex took the truck back while i unpacked things. it was super smooth. we got a LOT unpacked that day. and then on sunday same thing. i just kicked it into high gear. i'd say about 70% of the house is put together. basically all that remains to be unpacked is the stuff for my desk, the cds/dvds, toiletries, and some things in the bedroom. but this is because we need containers for such things. my desk just arrived today so by next week it should be all set up. on monday i'm going to ikea to get a bathroom organizer thing. then we just need a cd rack and something for the bedroom which i haven't figured out. but basically the apt looks pretty good. i put all the stuff in the corner and the rest is very liveable.

sunday the boys moved and that doesn't have appeared to go as smoothly. first of all they weren't technically allowed to move on sunday due to some weirdo PLB rule. but they did it anyway. they had to make two trips and even after all that they didn't get everything and had to return the truck monday morning (funny story to follow about that).

sunday was also my bday and stacey hosted a seder at her house for alex, me, and some of our crew. it was very fun. we read from a dr. seuss style haggadah and ate really tasty food. i thoroughly enjoyed my celebrationg into the late 20s.

i also got a call from kyle who said he's coming out to california next month! WOO!!! i'm so excited. i fucking love kyle. i can't wait.

ok so monday. i heard from lawrence that disaster struck their morning. it's kind of funny, kind of NOT. so michael was gone and lawrence and rick had to return the UHAUL by 9:30am. they had to pack some stuff in there. mainly just crap in our house to bring to good will. like extra couches and crap they wanted to toss. it was getting late so lawrence decided to bring my desk downstairs alone and get it ready for the UHAUL to save time. well apparently it broke on him down the staircase. only really the screws broke but considering how it's constructed, that meant its sort of like just broke and fall all over him. so that was the first bad thing to happen. then they loaded up the UHAUL and went to good will only to find that half our crap was too crappy for even good will to take. can you believe it? yes, you can. if you know my house. so they piled it BACK into the UHAUL and back into our house. this all took time and now they were running REALLY late. it was like 9:25 and they had to get the UHAUL back at 9:30. and they still had to get gas. so they booked it down la brea. lawrence in his car and rick in the UHAUL. midway rick turns around and calls lawrence who is baffled as to why rick is turning around. turns out a man pulled up beside rick and told him that the dolley had fallen out the back of the UHAUL! they forgot to close it in their haste and the dollye just fell out. so then they had to go up and down la brea looking for the dolley. meanwhile UHAUL's automated service was calling their phones telling them the UHAUL was late. so finally they gave up and returned the UHAUL and paid the $60 (ouch) fee for the lost dolley. and this was all by like 11am.

so the move for the boys didn't go as well. and to top it all off, as of yestrday our house looked like this:

we have to be out by saturday at the latest.....

i took these photos to document the final days of our house. my apologies if any one of my guys feels violated in me taking these photos. i was just going around the house trying to clean up my stuff and thought it fitting to document. but as you can see, there is a lot left to dispose of/move/clean and we are running out of time. now you understand my grief! my stress over this move.... i know it can be done. i know it HAS to be done. but that doesn't mean i'm not tired as a result. i'm going to go straight home tonight and help out and then head out to laurel's bday thing. and if possible, i'll try and help tomorrow. except i believe the power shuts off tomorrow. so i dunno.... i wanna take photos of the house TOTALLY empty. don't know if that is even possible. i leave for coachella early saturday morning.

it's a sad sad day for us orange:house folk. we had dinner tuesday night at roscoe's as sort of a "last family outing" reminiscent of our "first family outing" at roscoe's some 5 yrs ago. sigh.... i miss living with them already. i love my new apt but it's weird. it'lll take getting used to. i went and visited michael's new place and rick/lawrence/neil's new place. i can't wait til they are all fully moved in and the walls are painted and such. i think it will all be great and new and exciting. for now i sit and stress and feel tired. coachella is this weekend and i have a hectic project at work. so it won't be til next week that i can relax....sigh...

ugh. no time to blog. very busy with the move. but i'll return shortly with many sentiments and photos and stories. if i remember them all that is. sigh....

ok. FINALLY a moment to blog right before flash class starts. i've been super busy at work and at home. trying to move my shit to the new apt and then at work slammed with two monster print projects. i mean it's good cuz i'm totally stoked that they picked me to work on these projects but it's just been eating away at my time. never a moment's rest to blog at work. and no time at home because my free time is spent bringing shit to the new apt and setting some things up. but i wanted to speak about my birthday party. cuz it was great! i had a fabulous time. got super drunk and puked like halfway in btwn. i was like, "eh, i'm feeling really drunk. i think i'll just go throw some of it up and then start off with clean slate." so that's what i did. i did this last year actually. both times it worked like a charm. i was totally fine after i puked. didn't stop me at all. and alex, stacey and i even walked over to bossa nova at the end of the night for some late night grub. as i tell people all the time, i'm a pro puker! haha

the bar we went to was super cool. it's called the woods and it's in this strip mall on la brea and sunset. total crap location but the bar itself is neat. it's a bit small but i really liked it. it totally smelled like wood when we got inside and after awhile you just get used to it and don't notice it anymore. the wall is textured with wood blocks jutting in and out of the wall. it creates a really awesome texture. i loved it. they had this awesome smores martini that was to die for. marshmallow and graham crackers on the rim. YUM!!! lots of people showed up and it was just all around a good time. so thanks to everyone! for my real birthday stacey and alex are hosting a seder for all of our friends. well those that want to come. it's going to be fun and funny i think. i'm excited. but first i have to get through "THE MOVE" which is going to be hellish i know. ugh.

speaking of which, i'm getting really sad about it. every time i move shit to my new place i leave and go home and think "soon this will be my home. and i won't be leaving. no more rick, michael and lawrence...." so sad. last night i went to rick's cousin's show at the silverlake lounge. and it was good times! but rick was thinking about us moving out. i mean it's hard not to when everyone around us keeps asking about it. but yea. it's just sad. super super sad. this weekend is my final weekend in the new house. come monday i'll be deconstructing ikea furniture and cleaning shit up. :(

ah well. no better radiohead tickets. we tried. my citicard thing didn't come up til it was too damned late! we tried for 3 tickets for me, alex and jen and and everything that came up was much further in the back. ehhh not worth it. so we'll stick with what we have. that means jen can't go but she's ok with it. she might not even be back from her summer jaunt anyway.

i'm really excited today! it's sunny out. going to be in the 90s!! and we're going to the new apt. newly painted and all. the couch is arriving. we're moving some boxes. it's going to be good times! and then the birthday celebration later in the evening. i have to pick my poison for the night. i don't want to puke but i want to be sufficiently wasted.

woo! i sold the movie chairs. this girl came by and bought them. she seemed very nice. young girl around my age. she said she loves vintage movie theaters so these were perfect. i felt good selling them to her. i didn't want to give them away for free and i wanted someone to get them that really wanted them. so this is good. now i have to unload my tv, desk lamp, floor lamp, and 3 cd racks. mostly i'm concerned with selling the tv. the lamps are whatever.

anyway, so i got home tonight and looked through my mail. i had two very interesting pieces. the first being the tshirt i ordered AGES ago. i remember it was taking forever for the package to come and so finally i called the company and asked for a tracking number and when i got it, it said it had been delivered already! so then i investigated with the post office and basically they said "well if it said it's delivered, then it was." and i was convinced that it was delivered to the wrong place because they do that a lot to our house. we get shit that isn't for our address all the time. and then the man said "well usually that's letters but not packages. probably someone took it if it was sitting on the doorstep." and i was NOT convinced because we have entire boxes left on our doorstep and no one takes them. but how could i prove it was delivered to the wrong address? well today the package arrived with the words "wrong address" on it! so there ya go. i was right! i don't really want the shirt anymore because i had another one made at fresh pressed and that shirt is better than this one. so i dunno what to do with this thing. but i'm at least glad it arrived finally to prove i was right.

the second piece of interesting mail was an envelope from the EEOC (equal employment opportunity commission). the letter was in regards to my former employer and the sexual harassment lawsuit that is pending. they are sending this to everyone that was a former employee or a current one. the letter has a form attached to it to fill out answering questions about sexual harassment in the workplace. so you BEST BELIEVE i'm filling that shit out. i don't feel personally sexually harassed but that's cuz i have a high high tolerance for that shit. and if i didn't loathe THE MAN, i wouldn't even respond. but he deserves to get railed for being the complete and utter shit that he is. so i will tell it like it is. i have some stories to share. things that he did which would definitely be considered sexual harassment in the workplace considering if you just even talk about sexual things that's technically sexual harassment. so yea. my words may do nothing but i will try.

i think alex and i are going to see 21 tonight. and then it's just gearing up for tomorrow when we move some boxes to our new apt! i'm very excited but waves of sadness and anxiety hang over me. mostly sadness. i'm REALLY REALLY going to miss my guys.

well i'm kind of shocked. i got radiohead tickets. decent ones too. they are playing the h.bowl so if you can imagine the bowl and think about splitting it in half. lower and upper. the lower half has 3 sections. my tickets are at the front of the 3rd section. far to the right. that's not too bad. i wasn't even expecting to get through. i fumbled for a second when the page refreshed because there were lots of buckets to fill out and i fumbled for a sec. but i got through and got 2 tickets! i'm going to try again tomorrow to see if i can do any better. i want 3 so jen can sit with alex and i. so we'll see. but my coworkers got nothing. alex got nothing. usually that's me. i mean the last time i tried to get radiohead tickets (at the greek), my hands were going numb because i was freaking out since i didn't get any. laurel was too. it was hilarious. we still speak of this moment with great clarity for our insane behavior. haha anyway, good times.

this weekend we get the keys to the new apt! exciting! we're going to move some shit in and set up a few things. nothing major. that's for next weekend. the walls should be painted. i can't wait to see. the couch will arrive too. woo! the couch is awesome. awesomely expensive as well. but a good investment.

then at night we have the birthday celebration. woo! i can't wait to get drunk and have a good time with friends. i got a new outfit and everything. cute and cheap. (thank you forever 21)

ok i need to stop. i'm at work and my thoughts are divided so this is coming out jumbley.

come celebrate with james and i! i hope it's a bang up good time.

i'm trying to get work done and i'm totally procrastinating. in my procrastination, i somehow landed on the video clip of the new kids on the block on the today show. i've known about this reunion for awhile thanks to stacey's mania for the band. i mean i'm not sure if she was the bigger fan than i back in the day. i don't think so but who knows. she tipped me off to the rumors and so i was well aware that they were going to appear on the today show last week. i just didn't have a means to watch it. so i happened on the clip just now and i have to say, i'm kind of excited. like i know they were a fucking horrible boy band. but MAN did i love them so. i had all the albums on tape. yes, tape! i had the toys, the clothes, the books, the magazines. i mean shit. i was obsessed with them for like a good 3 yrs. i made my parents take me to one of their shows and as i recall it was all screaming fans. it was insane. i used to watch their music videos over and over and oggle at jordan and learn the words to the songs and the steps to their dances. i even watched the saturday morning cartoon! i mean i was obsessed. so to hear they are reuniting, is, well, kind of exciting. will they be any good? will their dancing suck? who the hell knows. but if stacey's down to get tickets to their show, shit, i'll go with her. i'll go to see the mania. they were the original contemporary boy band. they paved the way for the backstreet boys and n'sync and all that. they might have been cheesy as hell and their music might have been overly produced and candy coated like britney spears and the like, but they sold millions and that is something that cannot be denied. i just listened to a short clip of one of their songs on their site and it's totally poppy in that justin timberlake way, but the beat sounds good. that much is true. so maybe i'll actually like this shit. i don't know. but i'll at least check it out.

one last bit of procrastination.

after i make a blog posting i usually go back and re-read it to hopefully catch spelling and grammar errors and sometimes i don't catch them and sometimes i do. anyway, i was just thinking again how plain as shit my blog looks. but how i refuse to change it. i mean here i am, apparently miss designer extraordinaire and yet my blog looks like total plain crap. i mean it's not ugly. it's just nothing. it's devoid of design really. unless you consider it to be entirely MIN-I-MAAAAAAAAL design. and in some ways i do.

pause.

HOLY SHIT! my teacher from the flash class just emailed. NO CLASS tomorrow! she has to work on something blah blah. i get another week! woo! and she said she will be extending the class another week to make up for the loss. fine by me! wee!!!! :)

ok back to what i was saying. so why don't i change my blog and make it super cool looking? well one reason is i am lazy. but the main reason is that then my archives won't jive. and i want them to. i mean this thing has been going on for SO long and i've gone through some mishaps with transferring old data, such that if you go to the archives shit looks fine but really it's technically speaking, not. so if i go and change the layout, things will look wonky. and to be honest, this blog is just a way for me to talk out loud (via text of course). so it doesn't need to be cool and fancy. people who read this probably know who i am and what my design capabilities are. so no need to dress to impress so to speak. anyhoo, just felt like sharing that.

time for me to continue doing flash even though I DON'T HAVE TO! :)

gah. why is it so cold in my room?! i think i need some heat! i am procrastinating despite desperately needing to do my flash homework. i can't seem to get started. gah. i'm far far behind. no good. after i write this posting, finish up an email and update my calendar, i will start!

last night i completely crashed out on the couch because i was so fucking tired. and this was after having like 2 cups of coffee throughout the course of the day. i had a cookies and cream latte which was mighty tasty. never had such a thing before.

james and i are trying to figure out where to hold our birthday bash. i sort of want to go somewhere completely new and i found this one place that probably none of us have been to. so i have to see what james thinks. but the shindig is set for april 12th because april 19th i will be moving all day and likely won't be able to deal with partying AT ALL. so the 12th it is! which means it's NEXT saturday! gah! and that's the weekend that we get the keys to our new apartment. double gah! at least i've packed a lot of things already. i mean i still have more to go but a lot of the smaller things have been packed. i still need to try and sell some shit too. gah. i should stop procrastinating. this is not going to help when it's 1am and i still have work to do.

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